But first Eragon wants to save Arya (Sienna Guillory), a woman with whom he has an unexplained psychic connection and who stole the dragon egg from the king in the first place, from the clutches of the king’s villainous henchman Durza (Robert Carlyle).
Eragon finds the village crazy person, Brom (Jeremy Irons), who Obi-Wans him with training and backstory, and they set out to join the anti-Galbatorix resistance forces gathering in the mountains. So now Eragon has a dragon named Saphira whose thoughts he can hear in the voice of Rachel Weisz and who is loyal to him as her rider. But then the evil Galbatorix (a campy John Malkovich) killed them all (kill a rider, his dragon dies too) and yoked the land under his oppressive rule. There used to be dragons all over the place here, in the old days, ridden by noble knight-warriors who used them to do good and spread peace.
The story is set in the forested land of Alagaesia, where 17-year-old Eragon (Edward Speleers) discovers a big blue jelly bean that eventually hatches and produces a dragon. The parallels are so plain that pointing them out isn’t even a matter of opinion. The LOTR and SW rip-offs in the film are so obvious that a quick Googling shows them to have been mentioned by nearly everyone who has discussed the movie. And yet somehow - and this is stunning - somehow the story turns out to be geeky, simple-minded and shamelessly derivative of “Lord of the Rings” and “Star Wars.” Why, it’s almost as if … as if a home-schooled, fantasy-obsessed teenager wrote it! I haven’t read the book, but I know this about it: It was written by a home-schooled, fantasy-obsessed teenager named Christopher Paolini and published when he was 19. If you took all the dragon-centered movies ever made, and counted the good ones on your fingers, I bet you’d still have enough fingers left over to flip off “Eragon” as you walked laughing from the theater.
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